'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I came to call not the upright, but sinners.' Mark 2:13-17

Today's Readings

 

'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I came to call not the upright, but sinners.'

Mark 2:13-17 

 

 

¹³ He went out again to the shore of the lake; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.

¹⁴ As he was walking along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, 'Follow me.' And he got up and followed him.

¹⁵ When Jesus was at dinner in his house, a number of tax collectors and sinners were also sitting at table with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many of them among his followers.

¹⁶ When the scribes of the Pharisee party saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?'

¹⁷ When Jesus heard this he said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I came to call not the upright, but sinners.'